Aimed at a broad readership, from amateurs to aficionados, students, academics, teachers preparing for classes, musicians and performers, The Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia addresses virtually every aspect of Richard Wagners life, career and cultural...Lasīt vairāk

Statistically the most performed and listened to contemporary composer in the world, Part is a cultural and musical phenomenon. Complete with numerous musical examples, this book spans his entire career chronologically and is the definitive gui...Lasīt vairāk

As the worlds most renowned plaster casting workshop turns two hundred, this book celebrates the extraordinary history of the Gipsformerei in Berlin.For the last two centuries the Gipsformerei-or Reproduction Workshop-in Berlin has pr...Lasīt vairāk

Ceramics and the Museum interrogates the relationship between art-oriented ceramic practice and museum practice in Britain since 1970.Laura Breen examines the identity of ceramics as an art form, drawing on examples of work by artist...Lasīt vairāk

This book presents a fresh, interdisciplinary approach to the study of the contemporary composer Arvo Part and his reception. The volume charts his influence on areas including film, cultural programming, new media, cultures of listening, politics an...Lasīt vairāk

This book offers an extensive investigation of the use of audio-visuals in exhibition design, showing their significant influence on the configuration of the whole space and on the relationship between museums and their visitors. Moving image...Lasīt vairāk

Inspired by Strunk & Whites The Elements of Style, this elegant, short reference is the perfect guide for screenwriters and creative artists looking to succeed as industry professionals. Readers will quickly unders...Lasīt vairāk

Charts headbanging through the late `70s, arriving at the first years of this flash phenomenon - 1979 & 1980. Popoff along with dozens of headbanging buddies tell the tale of the genres birth & mischievous, defiant adolescence - heavy metal would...Lasīt vairāk

Curating Pop speaks to the rapidly growing interest in the study of popular music exhibitions, which has occurred alongside the increasing number of popular music museums in operation across the world. Focusing on curatorial practices and proc...Lasīt vairāk

Graphic Design: Learn It, Do It is introduction to the fundamentals of graphic design and the Adobe Creative Cloud applications used to put these concepts into practice. This book is intended for production-oriented audiences, tho...Lasīt vairāk

Theory for Art History provides a concise and clear introduction to key contemporary theorists, including their lives, major works, and ideas. Written both for the student in need of a quick introduction or for the schola...Lasīt vairāk

Biological accounts of art typically start with evolutionary, psychological or neurobiological theories. A more comprehensive framework, based also on the ecology of art and how art behaviors get expressed in engineered niches, can help us bett...Lasīt vairāk

Some of the highest and widest vault constructions produced in the Middle Ages are located in the Mediterranean area. Outstanding buildings with remarkable vaults and buttressing, such as the Cathedral of Majorca, are evidence of a lively technolo...Lasīt vairāk

The way we see our bodies doesnt always match how a photograph might portray them. From the 1960s onwards, many sculptors became involved with a mode of realism that explored not just how to depict the human body with photographic accuracy, b...Lasīt vairāk

Fashion reveals not only who we are, but whom we aspire to be. From 1775 to 1925, artists in Europe were especially attuned to the gaps between appearance and reality, participating in and often critiquing the making of the self and the image. Rea...Lasīt vairāk

In this fourth installment of her best-selling pictogram series, award-winning graphic designer Yang Liu distills all the little joys and aches of childhood and parenting. Big meets Little takes on the daily happenings of family life through tongue-i...Lasīt vairāk